I Used to Copy and Re-Copy

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When I was in grade school and up into junior high and high school, I used to copy and recopy my papers, making sure they were neat. (A little editing never hurts) This was before we had computers, copiers, and such. I was a writer, I just loved to write. I was in a special English class in junior high. I always did well in English not so in Math and Biology. Now I wish I had gone on to college and learned about journalism and the literary arts. I was lucky to graduate from high school. What I learned I learned from the library, my mom, and hours of reading the classics. I loved to read. I dreamed of having a huge private library with rare and great literary works in it. I used to be a member of a fiction writer's club. We sent(snail mail then)our writing to each other and received critiques. I was very proud when one writer told me he had sent his work to a professional writer and had gotten the same critique from this author as I had given him. This made me feel as if I were on the right track. Now I read dozens of articles each month on different subjects. I find many are badly written, with grammatical errors, misspellings, and even the occasional word left out. It's become a bit of a workout determining what the author is trying to say at times. Are you a wanna-be published writer like I am? (I have had many of my articles published but none of my fictional work.) How about you?